Themeing and Scheming

So you probably noticed the change in the way the site looks. I spent a few hours on the weekend creating this new theme and planning a few others.

You may have also noticed the primary links up in the header on the right, let me take a brief moment to explain.

A little more than a year ago I was pretty heavy into creating open source application extensions (Themes, Modifications, Plug-ins etc). I want to get back into it. So I’m arranging my sites around that theme. How much of any of what I want to do will happen is still probably anybody’s guess. Last time, I got completely turned off of the thing when a Developer I was working with made so many un-documented changes to one of my applications that I basically lost touch with it, and when he one day disappeared on me, I was left trying to support something I knew very little about.

I also had a lot of people not understanding that I do this on the side, in between working, school, homework and my girlfriend (in no particular order) and all the duties and responsibilities that come with those things, so I’m linking my blog and personal gallery in with everything else. But you know my blog, what it entails and what I use it for so I’ll glaze over that subject.

Before I start explaining each of the other two sites let me start by saying I haven’t spent much, if any, time on the themes for these sites. So they will be changing to match the look and feel of my blog. Its the template that I’ll use for anything else I put on this conglomerate of sites.

tinyforge.com

(labeled ‘Wiki’ in the links): Tinyforge (tinyforge.com & tinyforge.net) is more or less the central entry point for people interested in my developments more than my personal life. Its a Wiki, like any other Wiki you’ve seen. And at least for the time being, its completely open to edits.

This site will be the location that contains all my applications and designs, as well as download links, documentation, common support and other similar stuff. Think of it as a users manual written in pencil. When you have a question you can open to that section, but if you see a mistake or want to add to it, just change it.

This should help me stay on top of the documentation and common support of any of my applications.

dormlife.us

(labeled ‘Forum’ in the links): For a two way communication of support, you can use the forum. However, its not necessarily the only thing the forum can be used for. I have other hobbies, other interests, even some local events may show up on the Forum. I don’t actually expect the forum will get much use in that facility though, because most the topics that might show up on there, end up in my face to face conversations with my friends anyway. But its there if anybody wants to use it.

So that’s the scheme for the Indemnity Web as I’m going to be calling it from now on. Let me know if you come across any bugs that need to be worked out for my blog’s theme, its the only one I’m considering done.